Customs Clearance Ghent

About Ghent

Ghent is Belgium's steel and automotive manufacturing centre, anchored by the ArcelorMittal integrated steelworks and a Volvo Cars component supply chain that together generate a steady flow of inbound and outbound industrial freight. Unlike Antwerp's deep-sea container gateway, Ghent's freight profile is built around named production plants: steel coils, automotive parts and petrochemical bulk move through the city on a manufacturing schedule rather than a shipping-line timetable. The E40/E17 motorway junction sits at the centre of that network, less than 60 km from Antwerp, giving road freight operators a direct inland route without routing every load through the port itself.

Freight arriving from Serbia under the Common Transit Convention discharges its T1 declaration at an inland customs office in the Ghent area, matched against the EU Customs Office List entry for Ghent. Steel coils and automotive components for ArcelorMittal and Volvo Cars move under specific tariff classifications, and bonded Type I and Type II warehouses in the Ghent customs zone allow deferred duty payment for goods staged before final distribution. Fin Partner tracks the transit file from the Serbian office of departure through to whichever office discharges it.